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PROGRAMME 


Cierra is 


Fiftieth Annual Meeting 


Woman’s Board of Missions 


November 14, 15, 16 
1917 


PARK STREET CHURCH AND TREMONT TEMPLE 
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 


“A Jubilee shall that fiftieth year 


be unto you” 


WOMAN'S 
BOARD 


PRESIDENTS 
OF THE 





MRS. JUDSON SMITH MRS. ALBERT BOWKER MRS. CHARLES H. DANIELS 
1890-1906 1868-1890 1906- 


FIFTY YEARS OF THE WOMAN’S BOARD 
OF MISSIONS 


Under the leadership of Mrs. Albert Bowker, the Woman’s Board 
of Missions was organized in Boston, January 2, 1868, with forty 
charter members. Over 60,000 now own allegiance to its cause. 

During the first year $5,000 were gathered with much devoted 
self-sacrifice, and seven missionaries were sent to the field. The 
half century has multiplied the latter more than fifty fold—their 
service covering 5,500 years—and the gifts a thousand fold. In 
active service today are 134 missionaries and over 900 native helpers 
who carry inspiration far afield in the 73 mission stations. Three 
hospitals and five dispensaries, 34 boarding schools and over three 
hundred kindergartens and day schools, together with normal and 
training schools form the working plant of the organization. 

Notable in the development of the work at home was the adoption 
in 1902 of plans for united mission study, originated by Miss Abbie 
B. Child, able and devoted Secretary of the Board from 1869 to 
1902. Theresultant summer assemblies and girls’ camps for mission 
study have stimulated greatly the growth of missionary education 
for old and young alike, while the spirit of Christian unity is reflected 
on the field in the Union Colleges for Women in Madras and 
Peking, and the Medical College to be established in Vellore. 

Who can estimate what this world vision may mean in the deeper 
life of women in America as well as to their sisters in foreign lands? 


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THE Gib .Op sh 


OUR 
MISSIONARIES 


1868 
LOVE? 





MRS. MARY K. EDWARDS 


a INANDA, AFRICA 
MISS MARY E. ANDREWS MRS. URSULA C. MARSH 


PEKING, CHINA _ BULGARIA 





Three of the seven pioneer missionaries commissioned in 1868. Two are still 
in active service on the field. Mrs. Marsh returned to this country but two 
vears ago. A fourth, Mrs. Olive P. Andrus, died in 1916 in war-stricken Turkey. 





MISS ADELAIDE FAIRBANK MISS CAROLYN D. SMILEY MISS MARY M. ROGERS 
A missionary of the fourth First Jubilee Missionary To be commissioned at the 
generation Ahmednagar, 1916 Jubilee Meeting 


Three of the twenty-one Jubilee Missionaries who are preparing to go to the 
field, or are already at work at their stations. 


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THE GIFT OF MONEY 


FIRST BUILDING MRS. EDWARDS’ 


ERECTED HOME 
BY IN 
THE BOARD INANDA 





GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY GIFT 


In 1912 it was decided to celebrate the Jubilee Year of the 
Woman’s Board, by a gift of $250,000, to be used for land, buildings, 
and equipment in the various Mission fields, in many of which, as 
at Inanda, the simple buildings of fifty years ago are still in use. 

Auxiliaries and individuals have responded generously, realizing 
that in foreign lands as at home a work is judged by its local habi- 
tation, and cannot develop within narrow or crumbling walls. 

The money has been put to immediate use as it has come in, and 
already schools and hospitals, long so sorely needed, are being built, 
and improved facilities for evangelistic work have been provided. 

So far as possible the national or local style of architecture has been 
employed, as in the recently erected Capron Hall shown below. 

The plans include hospitals at Madura and Foochow, kinder- 
gartens at Paotingfu, Foochow and Tientsin, China, and boarding 
schools at Uduvil, Ceylon, Inanda, Africa, Chihuahua, Mexico, 
Matsuyama, Japan, and much work in Turkey when the war is over. 

Thirty-four stations are thus being given modern equipment and 
a veritable Jubilee for teachers and pupils, for physicians and 
patients, will be assured by our Golden Anniversary Gift. 





A MODERN EDUCATIONAL BUILDING. CAPRON HALL, MADURA, INDIA 


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MISS GRISELL M. McLAREN 
VAN, TURKEY 





MISS ISABELLE PHELPS 
PAOTINGFU, CHINA 


MRS. JOHN E. MERRILL 
AINTAB, TURKEY 





MISS FIDELIA PHELPS 
INANDA, AFRICA 





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MRS. HENRY J. BENNETT 
TOTTORI, JAPAN 





MRS. JOHN S. PORTER 
PRAGUE, AUSTRIA 





MISS LULU G. BOOK WALTER 
UDUVIL, CEYLON 


REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE FIELD 
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Programme 
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PARK STREET CHURCH 


Mrs. CHARLES H. DANIELS, Presiding 


Wednesday Morning, 9.30 o'clock 
Doxology 
Opening Service Mrs. Charles H. Daniels 
Hymn 63: “Faith of our fathers, living still’’ 


Report of Committee on Charter and By-Laws: Organi- 
zation 


A Half Century of Giving Miss Sarah Louise Day 
Treasurer 


Hymn 47: “Thou Lord of life, our saving health” 
Pictures of the Past Miss E. Harriet Stanwood 
Introduction of Early Members of the Board 


Starting for the Field in ’68 Mrs. Ursula Clarke Marsh 
Pioneer Missionary 


Fifty Years After Miss Adelaide B. Fairbank 
Jubilee Missionary 


Hymn 15: “Spirit of God, descend upon my heart”’ 


Service of Intercession 


Rev. William Allen Knight, D.D. 


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Wednesday Afternoon, 2.15 o'clock 
THE WORK IN RETROSPECT 
Hymnets =. ord Ged of hosts” 
Scripture and Prayer Rey. AZ. @onrad, pels 
Hymn 74: “Christ for the world, we sing”’ 


The Years That are Told Miss Kate G. Lamson 
Foreign Secretary 


Hymn 60: “Glorious things of thee are spoken”’ 


Greetings 

A Noble Army of Martyrs Mrs. John E. Merrill 
Aintab, Turkey 

Offering 

India’s Christian Host Gurubai Karmarkar, M.D. 


Bombay, India 


Hymn 59: ‘‘Onward, Christian soldiers”’ 
Woman’s Share in World Missions 
President Mary E. Woolley 
Mount Holyoke College 


Hymn 48: “Saviour, who thy life didst give”’ 


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Wednesday Evening, 8.00 0’clock 


Harvard Church, Brookline, Mass. 


RECEPTION 
Sse Gears 


OBPIGERS sOr) THES BOARD 
MISSIONARIES, DELEGATES 
aN DOU Vleet Dam G Lesa 


_ Native songs and greetings from the 
Missionaries and from Dr. Karmarkar 


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Thursday Morning, 9.30 o'clock 
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY GIFT 


Mrs. W. L. ApaAm, Presiding - 
Hymn 399: “Hail to the brightness’’ 
What New Buildings Mean 


At Inanda: Secretary C. H. Patton, Miss Fidelia 
Phelps 


At Uduvil: Miss Lulu G. Bookwalter 

At Paotingfu: Miss Isabelle Phelps 

At Madura: Mrs. Edward Lincoln Smith 
At Smyrna: Rev. S. Ralph Harlow 


The Body of the Missionary Soul 
Secretary James L. Barton 
Service of Intercession 


Rev. William Allen Knight, D.D 


A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING 


Our Father who art in heaven, gratefully do we acknowledge before 
Thee Thy care in all our ways, whether the path be smooth or rough, 
winding or straight, in shadow or in sunshine. We confess to Thee 
our shoricomings, our follies, our vanities, our self-indulgences but we 
also humbly thank Thee for the response in our hearts, however small 
the measure, to Thy love for us. We know Thou art our Father. 
Thou knowest that we love Thee. We thank Thee that Thou teachest 
us how we may express our love, that by expression tt shall grow. Grate- 
fully we bring to Thee this day our gifts. All that 1s amtss in these 
offerings, forgive. Make clean and sweet our innermost purpose and 
let Thy blessing consecrate the buildings we now present. Save them 
from harm in: the world’s tumult af 1t may be. Watch over the sick in 
hospitals and those who tend them, sustain and fill with Thy spirit 
the missionaries who are carrying the water of life to thirsting souls. 
Let Thy blessing abide upon the homes in which they live, the schools in 
which they work, the places in which they go apart and rest awhile. 
Bless with the knowledge of Thyself all the nations of the world. Show 
us and all Thy children how we may do Thy will and make of earth a 
heaven. Let Thy kingdom come. This we ask for Jesus’ sake. 

Amen. 
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Thursday Afternoon, 2.15 o'clock 


JUBILEE INCREASE CAMPAIGN 


Miss HELEN B. CALDER, Presiding 


Hymn 80: “O Zion, haste, thy mission high fulfilling” 


Our Offering of Life Miss Calder 

Jubilee Returns from the Branches 

Our Younger Recruits Miss Mary Preston 
Secretary for Young People’s Work 

The Jubilee Trumpet Call Mrs. H. J. Bennett 


Tottori, Japan 
Introduction of Jubilee Missionaries 


COMMISSION SERVICE FOR JUBILEE 
MISSIONARIES 


Miss Mary M. Rogers, Miss Martha M. Van Allen 
Under appointment to Madura, India 
Miss Helen Constance Barker 
Under appointment to Turkey 


Hymn 48: ‘Saviour, who thy life didst give”’ 
The Commission Presented by Secretary J. L. Barton 


The Home Fellowship Miss Edna H. Mason 
Hartford Branch 
Welcome to the Field Dr. Mary E. Scott 


Inuvil, Ceylon 


Prayer of Consecration Miss Alice M. Kyle 
Editorial Secretary 


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Hymn 82: ‘‘ Ye Christian heralds, go, proclaim’ 


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Thursday Evening, 7.30 o'clock 


TREMONT TEMPLE 
REv. Epwarp C. Moore, D.D., Presiding 


Special music from 7.15 to 7.30 by the Malden Festival Chorus 
H. Augustine Smith, Director Marshall S. Bidwell, Organist 


Anthem: ‘‘Lovely appear over the mountains’ Gounod 


Scripture and Prayer Rev. Hubert C. Herring, D.D. 
Secretary of National Council 


Hymn 108: “‘O beautiful for spacious skies”’ 


Our Missionaries, World Citizens 
Mrs. Franklin H. Warner 


The Doctor in India Gurubai Karmarkar, M.D. 
Bombay 
Offertory 


The Victory of Faith in Turkey 
Miss Lucile B. Foreman, Aintab 
Miss Grisell M. McLaren, Van 
Miss Clara C. Richmond, Talas 
Mrs. Luther R. Fowle, Constantinople 


Hymn 78: “Lift up your heads, ye gates of brass”’ 


What the Present Momentous Hour Demands of Us 
John R. Mott, LL.D. 


Hymn 115: “God the all-merciful”’ 


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Friday Morning, 9.30 o'clock 
PARK STREET CHURCH 
THE FORWARD LOOK 


Hymn 111: “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the com- 
ing of the Lord”’ 


Devotional Service Mrs. E. L. McLaughlin 
Election of Officers 


At the Storm Centre of Europe Mrs. John S. Porter 
Prague, Austria 


Hymn 104: “Crown Him with many crowns” 


The Widening Circumference 
Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery 
President of the Woman’s American Baptist 
Foreign Missionary Society 


The Appeal of a Waiting World 
7 Secretary C. H. Patton 


The Call of Tomorrow Mrs. Charles H. Daniels 


Hymn 57: “Lead on, O king eternal”’ 


Communion Service 
| 12.00-12.30 o’clock 
Rev. F. E. Emrich, D.D., in charge 


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THE GIFT OF LIGHT 


A MIsSIONARY PAGEANT BY ANITA B. FERRIS 


BART elie Wice5 PUL 
Episodes. 
1. The Service of Womanhood. 
Presented by Second Church, Dorchester 


2. The Winning of Ruth. Mt. Vernon Church, Boston 
3. Historic Pantomime: Dorcas, Nunia, Abbess Hilda, Gertrude 
Egede. Cambridge Churches 


A. Founding the Southampton Female Charitable Association. 
First Church, Newton Centre 
5. Womanhood’s Need, Africa, China, India. 
Eliot Church, Newton 
First Church, Waltham 


Part II. The Flame 


Episodes. 
6. Founding the Woman’s Board. Auburndale Church 
7. Inanda Seminary Today. First Church, Cambridge 
8. A Visit to Uduvil, Ceylon. Harvard Church, Brookline 
9g. The Children’s Missionary in China. 


Phillips Church, Watertown 
10. School Children from Many Lands. 
Union and Shawmut Churches, Boston 
11. A Doctor’s Day in Madura. | 
West Somerville and other Churches 
12. The Exiles of Van. The School of Expression, Boston 


Part III. The Radiance 
Finale. Procession, Tableau, Jubilee Hymn. 


Given in Jordan Hall, Conservatory of Music, Boston 
Monday and Tuesday evenings, at eight o'clock, 
November 12 and 13, 1917. 


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DR. GURUBAI KARMARKAR 


One of the most distinguished Oriental women connected with 
the Woman’s Board of Missions is Dr. Gurubai Karmarkar, for 
over twenty years medical missionary at Bombay, who has come 
to this country for the cele- 
bration of the Jubilee. Her 
parents were Christians and 
as a girl she was educated in 
mission schools. With her 
husband she came to America 
for study, taking her degree 
at the Woman’s Medical 
College, Philadelphia, in 
1892. Onher return to India 
she was for a time resident 
physician at a Parsee hospi- 
tal for women at Bassein but 
she desired to ally herself 
with Christian work and found 
her place in the staff of the 
Marathi Mission at Bombay. 





Dr. Karmarkar’s professional activities are many and varied, 
She is in charge of a dispensary for women and children on the 
Mission Compound and for several years conducted a branch dis- 
pensary giving free help to poor mill people from the ‘“‘chawls”’ or 
city tenement houses. The rich call upon her as well as the poor 
and she has a considerable private practice, entering even Moham- 
medan homes. In all she treated some 8,000 cases in the past year. 
Courses of lectures in Hygiene to teachers and the medical care 
of pupils in girls’ schools occupy much of her time. For fifteen 
years she has been on the National Committee of the Y. W. C. A. 
in India and has twice been sent to Europe as its official delegate. 
She represents the highest type of Oriental womanhood. 


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TWO WOMEN’S WORK IN THE WAR 


“MADEMOISELLE MISS” 


Letters from an American girl serving with the rank of 
Lieutenant in a French Army Hospital at the front. 


“The record is one of the most intimate and holy things which have been 
saved for our comfort out of the whirlpool of embattled Europe. I find in 
these letters some fragment of true atonement for the huge sin and blunder of 
the war.”—Dr. RICHARD C. CABOoT in his Preface to this little book. 


‘“‘This brief record of some of those lights and darks shows not only what 
she does for her wounded and what her loving care of the wounded has done 
for her; it shows, too, the operation in a crisis of typical American resource- 
fulness and enthusiasm.’”—Boston Transcript. 


“These letters are not conscious literature but quivering life. ‘They are 
flung from the ends of the tingling nerves on to bits of paper, in the burning 
bloody mist of most tragic and heroic scenes. Nothing equal to them in bril- 
liancy, poignancy, and power has come from the European War region to any 
periodicals.” — Methodist Review. 

Published for the Benefit of the American Fund for French Wounded 


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THE EDITH CAVELL NURSE 


FROM MASSACHUSETTS 
A Record of One Year’s Personal Experience with 


THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN FRANCE 


BOULOGNE — THE SOMME 1916-17 
With an Account of the Imprisonment, Trial, and Death of Edith Cavell 


‘“‘A shameful story of German deception practised on the American Legation 
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of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no 
hatred or bitterness towards anyone.’ ’’— Christian Register. 


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